Corporate businesses are a dog-eat-dog world. Workers’ stress is often off the charts, the competition can be extremely fierce, and this work environment is even harder to gain recognition in as a woman.
A twenty-five-year-old TikToker named Cristina Sevcenco knows this feeling all too well. She recently shared how her manager stole her work and claimed it as their own.
Specifically, Cristina’s manager presented her business ideas and PowerPoint to management as if she had done the research herself.
Sick and tired of it, Cristina came up with an ingenious solution.
“Me hiding my signature so every time someone downloads it [the PowerPoint], a Watermark is added to it,” Cristina wrote on her TikTok. For context, a “watermark” is a faint, digital signature that appears over any professional document.
“Watch me get urgent calls like, ‘Cristina, there is a watermark on the PowerPoint. Can you please attach?” she added in the caption.
Cristina’s video reached 3.7 million people and gained nearly five hundred thousand likes. TikTokers everywhere applauded her gutsy move and begged for a tutorial on the hack.
“Girl boss!” one user commented.
TikTok; pictured above is Cristina
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“HOWWWW,” asked another user.
“Tutorial, please! This happened to me just this week,” added a third user.
Thankfully, Cristina did post a tutorial and even shared her thoughts on the toxic topic.
“I just don’t get how this is not common knowledge. You should research how to watermark your work because in corporations– and especially the one I worked in– it is very toxic and very common for people to steal your work,” she said.
Cristina also shared a story from when she was a brand manager for Oral B.
“I just walked into the office and saw my manager presenting my two weeks’ worth of market research. She presented everything with her name on every single slide, and that was the moment I started researching how to watermark my PowerPoints,” she explained.
Afterward, Cristina gave users a step-by-step tutorial for their own watermarking needs.
“Whenever someone tries to download the presentation, they will not be able to– in any way– remove the watermark. They will have to reach back out to you,” Cristina said.
She also added how sad it is that this PowerPoint trick is even needed to gain recognition in the workplace.
“If you have to do this, I am so sorry for you, and you are definitely in a really toxic environment,” Cristina said.
Still, if you find yourself in this position, you can even use this hack on Microsoft Word documents, Excel documents, and nearly every program within the Microsoft Office platform package.
To follow along with Cristina’s tutorial and ensure that you receive the credit you deserve, visit the link to her step-by-step guide here.
@cristinasevcenco Watch me get urgent calls “Cristina, there is a watermark on the ppt, could you please attach?” #fyp #businesstok #corporate #businesstiktok #job
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